Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-12

would DO glau 10 see MIN Lnere before ne
sailed. Both letters were mailed that
night.
My husband came home, and said the
express Office was shut up, and that ended
that question.
The next day when reached the Bre-
WORT l found note from Mr.. Haven.
Unfortunately, | destroyed IL that even
ing when ! answered It, for the note then
seemed to be Of no consequence, and so
can give the substance only. II said that
Mr.. Haven was very sorry to learn from q
letter that he had just received from his
friend In Hartland that | had never re-
ccived the bundle; that 1t had been sent
from the Office of the Hotel Brunswick,
and that he himself had handed the pack
age to the clerk. He also stated that the
clerk to whom he had given the package
had left the hotel but the one In charge
had assured him that no package of any
kind was ever sent by them to any express
company without q receipt being taken,
and that he would look 1t up. Mr.
Haven added that he regretted that
some important business matters pre-
vented his either looking up the matter
himself, or calling to SEQ me at the
Brevoort house, as he was to sail early
the next day. He advised me, as / was
then on the spot, to go to the headquarters
of the Adams Express company In New
York and state the case, and as already
had an accurate description of tho bundle
it would certainly be found in u short
time. And that was the sum and sub.
stance of it.
The next afternoon was going down
to Staten Island to reception, and as
had but two or three days in town, and
was extremely busy, and knew that 1t
would be so far down town unless went
on purpose, took carriage to the ferry,
and on the way down stopped at the
Adams Express company.
stated to the first man. who stood
near the doorway and who seemed to be-
long to tho place, that had come to find
q missing bundle, and asked Of whom
should inquire. He waived me aside with
q quite magnificent gesture and said:
"You'd better ask one OF the clerks"
felt crushed, but tried not to look So
and / went still deeper into the gloom and
dust, seeing in the far distance two west
ern windows that seemed to catch some
dim radiance from some source far above
| went on, and presently young man
met me, who appeared to look astonishcd
but he was very polite. l said, 81 came
to inquire about u missing bundle" and
began my story He said in the middle
of my first sentence:
"Will you kindly come this way to the
Officer"
So / followed him.
When first entered the doors couldn't
| 11Yrt c1111af,lxy than cnaf.a1 IN
grow up everywhere. Every huge box
seemed to have head behind it, and they
all had eyes, and they were all looking at
me- felt very awkward and out ofplace,
and for the time being wish l never had
been born.
At last we reached small glass inclosed
space, when my guide opened pew kind
of door, and said, "a lady about q lost
bundle, y and found myself standing be-
fore man that terrified me so--and am
not timid woman-that / haven't an
idea what he looked like, except that he
seemed inoffensive in every way. He
offered me chair, and | sat down and
tried to make myself believe that this
man was not really the whole Adams Elk
press company; for this was the reason he
seemed so terrifying. After while
wus able to tell him pretty clearly about
my lost bundle.
l accurately described its appearance
and size, and all / knew about it, and
also all did not know about it's contents.
Hc listened very politely, and then he gave
me blow that seemed to be entirely out
of rule 'Hc said
"IIavc you inquired for it at tho office
of the Hotel Brunswick
"N-o-o," said doubtfully, ''but sup
pose Mr.. Haven did,
"Ah, yes" he said ''Well, have, you
been to the Twenty-third street office? II
would naturally have gone there"
mo" / said, ~ haven't inquired any
where but here. Mr.. Haven told me t.
come here" m
"Wellr'
Gle didn't say much more; neither die
l. He took my name and address, and
then he opened the door for me, and said
he would do all in his power to have the
bundle found, and that should hear from
him. And as walked out it didn't seen
to me that had done much about finding
my bundle by inquirng at headquarters
The next day ! went to the Hote
Brunswick, and clerk came up into the
DullOl anu StH i4lC.
BY that time was rather tired of telling
my story, and so went over it as rapidly as
possible. The clerk listened as politely as
the august representative of the express
company had done, and when had finished
he assured me that the matter should at
once be attended to, and that the bundle
would certainly be found ''in the neal
future" l was very much impressed by
that phrase, as he probably meant SHOULD
be. He said:
at stands to reason that it must bt
found. We never send away bundle
without taking q receipt"
So saying he politely ended, and / GO
myself out on the sidewalk, and felt a
brst pretty sure Of my bundle, but OF
second thought felt somewhat doubtful
They all assured me it would be found
and yet-well, l began to feel very doubt
full
The next day went home. waited {
month for an answer to my letter to my
sister. But when l did receive lettel
from her it was not an answer to mine
which had evidently not reached her, al
she only spoke of the receipt of a letter o.
date some two weeks previous.
To mike q long story short, may say
that naver got an answer to my letter t
my sister. She was travelling about, ant